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USI calls on local authorities to give Irish equal prominence
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Wednesday June 21, 2006 14:03 by Mark G
USI wants street signs, maps and other notices to be designed in such a way that traditional place names are not made subordinate to the English versions. The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has welcomed the restoration of traditional place names in the Gaeltacht to sole official status – while calling on communities outside the Gaeltacht to ensure that Irish and English place names are given equal prominence. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2Another terrible press release from USI. They keep sending out stupid stories about Irish based on things that people read in the papers, borrrrrrring. Students are concerned about things other than saving a dead language.
You would think that a famously corrupt organisation like USI would have a better handle on mainstream Ireland. But it doesn't.
Instead they seem to have been taken over by a cabal of Celtic revivalists bent on preserving their ascendancy.
Their favorite tools, in my humble opinion, are guilt and governmental collusion. Take, for example, the civil service, that supposed paradigm of equal employment conditions for all, the one factor that will give you any advantage in any civil service promotion competition, apart from your track record of course, is the whopping 7% handed out for proficiency in a functionally useless language. Furthermore, the price tag on translation of official EU documents into Irish – predicted to be €30 million in 2007 – is a farce. And remember citizens of Ireland, this comes directly out of your pocket (no fat EU subsidies here).
The suggestion that we, the long suffering people of Ireland, accept another pointless, imbecilic, downright ridiculous project changing road signs to satisfy the ranting of a few elite muppets is beyond the realms of comprehension.